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50 free Homestar Runner trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Homestar Runner was one of the first great comedies made for the web. Two brothers built a small town of oddballs with little more than a home computer and their own voices, and for most of the 2000s a fresh cartoon nearly every week kept visitors coming back in their millions. Its jokes, songs and characters still turn up across the internet. This quiz covers the whole world of the site: the dim but lovable athlete in the title, his masked rival Strong Bad and the emails he answers, the neighbours, the spin-off shorts, the made-up bands and the retro video games. There are questions on how the cartoon began, who made it and who voices it, and on the moments when it crossed over into television, music and gaming. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who remembers the main cast to deep cuts for fans who clicked on everything. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up something even when you guess.
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Q 01What does Strong Bad from Homestar Runner keep on his hands while typing replies to emails from fans?
Boxing gloves
Boxing gloves stay on Strong Bad's hands even at the keyboard of his outdated computer. So many viewers wrote in asking how he types in them that the question became a running gag.
Q 02Which S-shaped dragon did Strong Bad draw when a Homestar Runner fan emailed asking him to draw a dragon?
Trogdor
Trogdor the Burninator became one of the most recognizable figures from the whole site, better known among non-fans than the main cast. He went on to star in songs, arcade-style games and a board game.
Q 03Which Christmas-like holiday do the Homestar Runner characters celebrate with lights, garlands and presents?
Decemberween
Decemberween replaces the turkey or ham with a traditional meal of bunnies, much to the dismay of the vegan Marzipan. It lands on December 25, which the cartoons treat as pure coincidence.
Q 04Homestar Runner, the star athlete of the web cartoon named after him, is drawn without which body parts?
Arms
Arms were left off because, the creators reasoned, a character named for running would not need any. He can still carry and throw things, and turned out to be the easiest character to draw.
Q 05What is the name of the fictional town where Homestar Runner, Strong Bad and their neighbours all live?
Free Country, USA
Free Country, USA is nominally ruled by the King of Town, a rich monarch whose authority none of his neighbours care to acknowledge. Strong Bad has even suggested the title is self-proclaimed.
Q 06Which large, yellow, balloon-like character is the best friend of the title character in Homestar Runner?
Pom Pom
Pom Pom hides a busy life behind his bubble-like looks: he is a martial arts expert and a wealthy ladies' man. He keeps his many girlfriends' numbers in a gadget called the Pom Pilot.
Q 07Which internet meme's name has been traced back to a word spoken in a 2005 Homestar Runner puppet cartoon?
Doge
Doge was what Homestar called Strong Bad in an office puppet short in 2005. The misspelling only became a worldwide meme in 2013, attached to photos of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu.
Q 08Which crudely drawn Homestar Runner spin-off, narrated by Strong Bad in falsetto, often kills off its four leads?
Teen Girl Squad
Teen Girl Squad began when a viewer named Brittany asked Strong Bad for a comic strip about her friends. His spur-of-the-moment doodle became a series of its own, with the four always back from the dead.
Q 09Which crowdfunding site funded a 2018 board game about Strong Bad's dragon from Homestar Runner within a few hours?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers passed the $75,000 goal in the first few hours of the campaign. The result was a cooperative game in which every player controls the same dragon.
Q 10In Homestar Runner, what kind of business is the fast-talking, shady salesman Bubs most often seen running?
A concession stand
A concession stand bearing his own name is where Bubs sells almost anything, usually at a humorously high price. He also branches out into shadier, often extra-legal side businesses around town.
Q 11What kind of blue and red headgear does the title character of Homestar Runner usually wear and prize above all else?
A propeller cap
A propeller cap, often called a beanie, is the possession he values most. He refers to the spinning propeller on top as its buzzer.
Q 12Which strange Homestar Runner character was killed off in his first scene but returned to join the main cast?
Homsar
Homsar was crushed under a heavy weight by Strong Bad in his very first scene, a one-off joke about a viewer's spelling. The creators kept bringing him back until he ranked as the twelfth main character.
Q 13Which band's Experimental Film music video was animated by the creators of Homestar Runner and stars its characters?
They Might Be Giants
Q 21Which 1980s video game pits players against the Strong Bads, whose name was borrowed for a Homestar Runner star?
Tag Team Wrestling
Tag Team Wrestling, an NES game, calls its villain team the Strong Bads. His creators wanted an obvious bad guy, and to them nothing looked more evil than the masked wrestlers of their childhood.
Q 22A grocery advert featuring which baseball club led, via a friend's garbled impression, to the name Homestar Runner?
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Braves second baseman Mark Lemke was the player in the advert. A friend who knew nothing about sport mangled the announcer's patter into the phrase that named the cartoon.
Q 23Strong Bad's heavy metal dragon anthem from Homestar Runner became a bonus track in which music video game?
They Might Be Giants became regular collaborators, performing alongside a puppet of Homestar in a run of live-action shorts. The band also wrote music for two of the Strong Bad Email cartoons.
Q 14Which Homestar Runner character works for the King of Town and almost never speaks because of a vow of silence?
The Poopsmith
The Poopsmith shovels for a living and communicates, when he must, with handwritten signs. He first broke his vow outright in the 200th Strong Bad Email, bursting into a grand sung fanfare.
Q 15In Homestar Runner's black-and-white Old-Timey cartoons, what is the 1930s counterpart of The Cheat called?
The Sneak
The Sneak takes the form of an opossum and talks by waving his nose. He once won a plague show for carrying more infectious diseases than any of the other vermin entered.
Q 16Matt Chapman, the voice of Strong Bad in Homestar Runner, went on to write for and act in which Disney cartoon?
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls gave Matt Chapman a writing job and several voice parts, including the character Mermando. Once his work on the show was done in 2014, he and his brother revived their own site after years of near silence.
Q 17Which fictional hair metal band from Homestar Runner, adored by Strong Bad, spoofs 1980s acts such as Poison?
Limozeen
Limozeen stepped out of the cartoon in 2008, when Matt Chapman sang lead at a real concert with an indie band filling in for the animated members. Strong Bad owns their signed memorabilia.
Q 18What is the name of the blue-haired anime version of Strong Bad in Homestar Runner's futuristic 20X6 cartoons?
Stinkoman
Stinkoman was born when a viewer asked what Strong Bad would look like in a Japanese cartoon. With his shiny body and robot boots, he spends his days demanding a challenge from everyone he meets.
Q 19What paid for all the running costs of Homestar Runner's website and its creators' living expenses at its peak?
Merchandise sales
Merchandise sales covered everything, having started with just a few dozen T-shirts in 2001. The brothers' retired parents handled much of the business side while their sons made cartoons.
Q 20Homestar Runner's cartoons and games were made with which web animation tool, a browser staple of the 2000s?
Flash
Flash was software the brothers were still learning when they turned their picture-book characters into a website. Its shutdown at the end of 2020 pushed new cartoons straight to YouTube.
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II included the song because the game's lead developer was a fan of the site. A later entry in the same franchise added a number by the cartoon's own hair metal band.
Q 24Which TV series gave Strong Bad's dragon from Homestar Runner a name-check in its final episode in 2003?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Joss Whedon, a fan who slipped references to the site into more than one of his shows. The dragon's mention came in the very last episode.
Q 25Which studio made the 2008 episodic adventure Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, based on Homestar Runner?
Telltale Games
Telltale Games released the point-and-click adventure as a season of five episodes. No serious talks about a second season had taken place before the studio closed in 2018.
Q 26Homestar Runner's Cheat Commandos, whose members all look like The Cheat, parodies which 1980s toy cartoon?
G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe is mocked right down to its advertising: the soldiers call their bases playsets, and every episode ends by urging viewers to buy the toys.
Q 27Homestar Runner's 20X6 platform game, starring an anime take on Strong Bad, is modelled on which classic series?
Mega Man
Mega Man also inspired the setting's name, since 20X6 spoofs the vague year 200X used in those games. The tenth and final level only arrived in December 2020, fifteen years after the first nine.
Q 28The King of Town, the crowned and mostly ignored ruler in Homestar Runner, has which notorious bad habit?
Eating almost anything
Eating almost anything put in front of him is the King's great weakness. His snacks have included deodorant, erasers and electric holiday decorations.
Q 29Coach Z, the awkward athletics coach in Homestar Runner, is a devoted fan and hopeful performer of which music genre?
Hip hop
Hip hop is his passion, the Wu-Tang Clan above all, and he fancies himself a rapper too. His own rhymes have been summed up as mostly counting to two over and over.
Q 30Which device of Marzipan's stars in a nearly animation-free Homestar Runner series plagued by Strong Bad's pranks?
An answering machine
An answering machine fills the screen while the rest of the cast leave their messages. In every episode Strong Bad rings in, badly pretending to be somebody else.